Month: June 2010
It’s that time of year…
Graduation! More than caps and gowns, smiles and celebrations, it means stepping from one stage of life into another. For our missioners in Bolivia, it means that they are just at the beginning of their time as lay missioners; they are truly experiencing a “commencement”. On Thursday June 10, Clare, Nora, Lynn, Joel, and Catherine…
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Franciscan Mission in the Third Millennium
This is the first of a series of reflections on mission by Fr. George Corrigan, OFM, which will appear monthly. Fr. George is a Franciscan friar of Holy Name Province and an FMS returned missioner. Part I: Introduction How do contemporary Franciscans understand mission? It is a difficult question to answer, partly because so often…
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